#208: THE RETURN OF OPTIMUS PRIME 1 - KOOL AID PLAGUE
Join your resurrected roundtable rascals of the APDC plus special guest James W. as they review the season 3 episode “The Return of Optimus Prime pt. 1” from the 1987 classic animated series, The Transformers!
Thief of Groove James Walnuts!! Quizerection! Tweet, you’re a dork!!! Mark and Gregory – Robot Racists!!! The bath salts of spores! Adult Baby Jessica!!! Thick as Tewkesbury Mustard! I want to Chip Chase somebody!! Super Mario kink! And the Throttlebots, too!!! Consume! Fancy Rod moves!!! Red Hate Plague! Our leader is back!!! Real World! Script Deviations! Iconic Moments! OUR LEADER IS BACK!!!
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TF TOY TALK – 10:36 WHY THE RETURN OF OPTIMUS PRIME? – 22:38 QUIZERECTION TRIVIA! – 26:50 SHOUT OUTS – 43:10 COCKTAIL – 48:50 EPISODE REVIEW – 51:20 IN THE REAL WORLD – 1:51:00 SCRIPT DEVIATIONS – 2:01:20 RATE THE SCHEME – 2:03:20 ICONIC MOMENT – 2:06:45
THE LAST WORD
This is one of my favorite cocktails and I can’t believe I haven’t put it on the show until now. This is a Prohibition-era cocktail originating around 1915. It fell out of favor pretty quickly but came screaming back into popularity in the early 2000s with the resurgence of older, simpler cocktails. It is equal parts of four ingredients:
· ¾ oz. (22 ml) gin
· ¾ oz. Green Chartreuse
· ¾ oz. Maraschino liqueur
· ¾ oz. lime juice
o Combine all ingredients in a shaker and shake with ice
o Strain into a chilled coupe glass
The best part about this drink is that it can be a Mr. Potato Head cocktail. Meaning the ingredients can be swapped out almost at will, if you adhere to the profile of the components. You can combine a strong spirit (gin) with a herbaceous one (chartreuse) a sweet liquor (maraschino) and a sour mixer (lime) in almost limitless ways. You can use Tequila, angostura, amaretto, and lime, for example. Or whiskey, Drambuie, triple sec, and lemon juice. It’s radical, y’all. How to Drink on YouTube has an excellent episode about this very subject.
It was pretty great they got Neil Breen to play Dr. Mark Morgan.
